Monitor OpenAI API
usage at work.
Point OPENAI_BASE_URL at the PromptGlass Gateway and every request from your apps, scripts and agents is attributed to a team, priced, inspected for sensitive data and governed by budgets, without changing application code.
OpenAI API
Responses, Chat Completions, Assistants and embeddings APIs.
What PromptGlass sees
- ✓Requests, tokens and cost per team, app and key
- ✓Model mix and right-sizing opportunities
- ✓Prompt and completion content (per storage mode)
- ✓Latency, errors and retries
- ✓Budget and rate-limit events
Captured by
Why it matters
The OpenAI API questions security and finance ask
Shared API keys hide which app or team is spending.
Prompts built from customer records can carry PII to the model.
Runaway agents and retries cause surprise bills.
How OpenAI handles data you send to OpenAI API depends on your plan and their current terms. Review them directly. PromptGlass controls what leaves your organization, whatever plan you are on.
Three steps
From OpenAI API blind spot to governed tool
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Discover
See every user of OpenAI API, which account type they use, and how often, from day one.
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Protect
Turn on detectors for the data you care about and coach, redact or block it in OpenAI API prompts and uploads.
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Optimize
Compare OpenAI API adoption and cost with the other AI tools in use, and right-size licenses and models.
Monitoring OpenAI API: FAQ
How do I monitor OpenAI API usage in my company?
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Deploy one of the PromptGlass sensors that supports OpenAI API: PromptGlass Gateway (proxy), SaaS API connector. Usage is tied to people and teams through your identity provider and shown in the PromptGlass console within hours.
Can PromptGlass stop sensitive data being shared with OpenAI API?
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Yes. PromptGlass inspects prompts and uploads to OpenAI API for personal data, health data, card numbers, secrets, source code and your own custom terms, then allows, coaches, redacts or blocks according to policy.
Does the gateway support streaming responses?
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Yes. Server-sent event streams pass through with inspection on the prompt side and incremental logging of the completion.
Can each team get its own key without new OpenAI accounts?
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Yes. PromptGlass issues virtual keys per team or app, maps them to one upstream key you control, and enforces a budget per virtual key.
Does PromptGlass work with OpenAI API if we self-host?
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Yes. Every sensor reports to PromptGlass Cloud or to a self-hosted PromptGlass deployment on your own Kubernetes cluster, including air-gapped environments.
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